Sunday, March 24, 2013

Hahamongna Detail Week, Just One More

photo by John Sandel

Thanks for coming along on our Hahamongna details tour. There are a million more intriguing little bits to discover out there. To give you an idea of how varied and variable Hahamongna is, I never even noticed the sign here in John's picture, and I've walked in the park at least once a week for seven years.
The landscape changes with every season. Paths we learn in summer and fall are rearranged with the spring rains. It's a place where city dwellers can relax and let their lizard brains reach out and connect--with ancestors, with nature, with what was and with what is. Hell, you can even connect with lizards.

Such an interesting sign. Does it mean Pasadena is falling apart in its care of Hahamongna? Or does it point to the Hahamongna "land grab" in the 1800s that ensured that Pasadena owned the river valley that flowed out the mountains while the places that actually border the area - Altadena and La Canada - didn't. It was a wise move by the first American farmers who came from the east after the Rancho days, as it provided their water supply.

We took Boz along the road north of JPL today, so he could enjoy the forest and play in water. On a cold day it might have been all right, but he's not going as far as he used to, and today wore him out.